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Vol. 5, Issue 5, May 2018

IoT Based Riceplant Disease Monitoring and

Controlling Using ESP Module 1
R.Devi, 2V.Ramya
1,2
Assistant Professor, ECE Department,
1,2
Department, Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchirapalli, India
devi-ece@saranathan.ac.in,ramyav-ece@saranathan.ac.in

Abstract: Agriculture is the backbone of our country. India is an agricultural country where most of the population depends
on agriculture. Research in agriculture is aimed towards increasing productivity and profit. It is the key to prevent the losses
in yield and quantity of agricultural product. Plant disease identification by continuous visual monitoring is very difficult
task to farmers and at the same time it is less accurate and can be done in limited areas. Hence this projects aims at
developing an image processing algorithm to identify the diseases in rice plant namely rice plant, Bacterial blight, brown
spot, sheath rot and sheath blight. Rice blast disease occurring in rice plant is due to magnaporthe grisea and this disease
also occurs in wheat, rye, barley, pearl and millet. Due to rice blast disease, 60 million people are affected in 85 countries
worldwide. The DHT11 sensor senses the field and its gives the information to ESP8266 module .ESP8266 module is wifi
enabled device, so it transfers data from field to cloud storage. So user monitor the field and senses the data without manual
intervention. Using Thinkspeak cloud platform and ESP8266 module monitoring is done.

Keywords: Agriculture, IoT, DHT11 Senor, Thinkspeak

I. INTRODUCTION
The Internet of things (IoT) is the network of physical
devices, vehicles, home appliances and other items
embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and
connectivity which enables these objects to connect and
exchange data. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through
its embedded computing system but is able to inter-operate
within the existing Internet infrastructure.The figure of
online capable devices increased 31% from 2016 to 8.4
billion in 2017.Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of
about 30 billion objects by 2020. It is also estimated that the
global market value of IoT will reach $7.1 trillion by
2020.The IoT allows objects to be sensed or controlled
remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating
opportunities for more direct integration of the physical
world into computer-based systems, and resulting in
improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit in
addition to reduced human intervention. When IoT is
augmented with sensors and actuators, the technology
becomes an instance of the more general class of cyber-
physical systems, which also encompasses technologies such
as smart grids, virtual power plants, smart homes, intelligent
transportation and smart cities.wild animals in coastal
waters.
Using Internet of Things (IOT), we can control any
electronic equipment in homes and industries. Moreover,
you can read a data from any sensor and analyse it
graphically from anywhere in the world. Here, we can read
temperature and humidity data from DHT11 sensor and
upload it to a ThingSpeak cloud using Arduino Uno and
ESP8266-01 module. Arduino Uno is MCU, it fetch a data
of humidity and temperature from DHT11 sensor and
Process it and give it to a ESP8266 Module.ESP8266 is a
WiFi module, it is one of the leading platform for Internet of
Things. It can transfer a data to IOT cloud.
II. DISEASE DETECTION SYSTEM
The decision support system senses the field using
sensor processes it and detects the plant diseases. The
detected information is sent to user and the remote server.
The proposed system is shown Fig 1.1.
The temperature and humidity sensor senses the field
and sends data to ESP8266 WIFI module.ESP8266 Wifi
module sends the data to cloud via internet.The data
uploaded in thinkspeak platform are updated for every five
minutes and finally message are also passed to farmer.This
systems easily detects the palnt diseases and send the
information to farmer via cloud platform.We add Adafruit
and DHT11 Sensor library to Ardinuo module.

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c) Moisture and Temperature sensor: The Soil Moisture

Sensor uses capacitance to measure the water content of soil
(by measuring the dielectric permittivity of the soil, which is
a function of the water content).Simply insert this rugged
sensor into the soil to be tested, and the volumetric water
content of the soil is reported in percent. The DHT11 is a
basic, ultra low-cost digital temperature and humidity
sensor. It uses a capacitive humidity sensor and a thermistor
to measure the surrounding air, and spits out a digital signal
on the data pin (no analog input pins needed). Its fairly
simple to use, but requires careful timing to grab data.

IV. CIRCUIT CONNECTION AND WORKING

First make the connection as shown in fig: 1.1.The 2 nd
pin is of DHT11 is a data pin, it can send a temperature and
humidity value to the 5th pin of Arduino Uno.1st and 4th pin
Fig 1.1 Disease Detection System of DHT11 is a Vcc and Gnd and 3rd pin is no connection.
The Arduino Uno process a temperature and humidity value
and send it to a ESP8266 WiFi module. The Tx and Rx pin
III. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS of ESP8266 is connected to the 2nd (Rx) and 3rd (Tx) of
a) Arduino :Arduino is an open source computer hardware Arduino Uno. Make sure that input voltage of ESP8266
and software company, project, and user community that must be 3.3V, not a 5V (otherwise it would damage a
designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and device).For that, we are using AMS1117 Voltage regulator
microcontroller kits for building digital devices and circuit. It can regulate a voltage from 9V to 3.3V and will
interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the give it to Vcc pin of ESP8266.The Ch_Pd is a chip enable
physical and digital world. The project's products are pin of ESP8266 and should be pullup to 3.3V through
distributed as open-source hardware and software, which are 3.3KΩ resistor. For reset the module pull down the RST pin
licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License of ESP8266 to Gnd.ESP8266 have 2 GPIO pins GPIO 0 and
(LGPL) or the GNU General Public License (GPL),[1] GPIO 2.
permitting the manufacture of Arduino boards and software
distribution by anyone. Arduino boards are available
commercially in preassembled form, or as do-it-yourself
(DIY) kits.
b) ESP8266 Module: The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi
microchip with full TCP/IP stack and microcontroller
capability produced by Shanghai-based Chinese
manufacturer, Express if Systems. The chip first came to the
attention of western makers in August 2014 with the ESP-01
module, made by a third-party manufacturer, Ai-Thinker.
This small module allows microcontrollers to connect to a
Wi-Fi network and make simple TCP/IP connections using
Hayes-style commands. However, at the time there was
almost no English-language documentation on the chip and
the commands it accepted. The very low price and the fact
that there were very few external components on the module
which suggested that it could eventually be very inexpensive
in volume, attracted many hackers to explore the module,
chip, and the software on it, as well as to translate the Fig: 1.2 Circuit diagram for monitoring Humidity and Temperature in
Chinese documentation. IOT cloud

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Construction and Testing
ThingSpeak is an open source platform to store and
retrieve a data for Internet of Things application. To use this,
you need to register in ThingSpeak cloud and then login to
your account. After create a new channel with temperature
in one field and humidity in another field as shown in Fig:
1.2. Once you created a new channel, it will generate a two
API keys, they are READ API keys and WRITE API keys.
First, copy the WRITE API keys from ThingsSpeak and
paste it into the line (String apiKey
"OX9T8Y9OL9HD0UBP";) of the program. Next, replace
the Host_Name and Password with your WiFi name and
WiFi password. The Arduino program Uses DHT library, if
it is not presented in your arduino IDE, select
SketchàInclude libraryàManage libraries.Install DHT Sensor
library. Then compile the program and upload to a Arduino
Uno through Arduino IDE. Ensure that WiFi modem and
internet connection in your Smartphone or PC are working
properly. After uploaded a program, the Temperature and
Humidity data is uploaded on ThingSpeak platform. The
user see graphically in the private view window of your
channel as shown in Fig: 1.4.The user see the uploaded data
from serial port of Arduino IDE.
Fig: 1.3 Creating new channel on ThingSpeak cloud
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Fig: 1.4 Graphical representation of Humidity and Temperature data
V. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
Decision support system is aimed to management of
crops from early stage to mature harvest stage involves
identification and monitoring The ESP8266 MODULE is
capable of sending information to user and then user retrives
the data from Thinkspeak cloud platform. Extension of
system in such a way that it will be capable to detect and
identify abnormalities on the other parts of plants.
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